If you’re staying here for Eid then I’ve got a nice treat for you. Radisson Blu Hotel are offering a chance for one of my readers to win 2 nights stay at the hotel during eid. Not only that but you’ll also get breakfast included, dinner for 2 at Al Boom Steak and Seafood Restaurant and access to the Viking Club swimming pool and health club so you could spend the Eid tanning poolside.

All you have to do to win the giveaway is leave a comment with the answer to the question below and I will randomly choose a winner once I close the post for comments Friday evening.

Question: Al Boom (Mohammedi II) and Al Hashemi II are the names of the dhows in dry dock at Radisson Blu. What is the name of the third dhow they have that you can sail on?

Rules: Only one entry per person and please make sure you use a working email since the winner will only be contacted by email. If winner doesn’t respond within 24 hours, another winner will be randomly chosen.

Update: Post is has now been closed for comments. Winner will be announced tomorrow.

Update2: Using Random.org I randomly generated a number between 1 and 520 and the winner was comment #111 (M. Ahsan). An email has been sent to them and if they don’t respond within 24 hours a second winner will be announced.

I will greatly appreciates if by struck ofluck I will be chosen as a winner. This kind of opportunity should not be ignore by readers or by people patronizing the Radisson Blu Hotel.I thank you for having this kind of promo or contest.Eid Mubarak to the people behind this, and also to the management of Radisson Blu Hotel

The name of the 3rd dhow is the Al Ghazeer and was built in 1983 by Abdul-Hussein Muhammad Rafie Marafie who was inspired by his uncle Ali Hussein Marafie who built the Muhammad I (another ship) in 1916. The Al Ghazeer was used in Abdul-Hussein’s famous journey from the ports of India (Calicut) through the Indian Ocean to Kuwait.

Abdul-Hussein was born in the Al-Wasat area of Kuwait but at the age of 9 moved to Bombay, India with his father to study. He returned to Kuwait at the age of 19 to assist his father in their growing trading company. He later moved to Germany and then traveled to the USA where he learned to make under water ship repairs. He speaks Arabic, Urdu, German, and English fluently.

I’m not entering the contest, but did think the history of the ship was quite interesting and thought I would share as it appears most responses are just copied from previous replies.

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